On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:47:06AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:22:15AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:46:42AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > > > If i am stopped from maintaining the driver for the ADSL modem that > > > > > > provides me access to the internet, and thus enables me to do my > > > > > > debian > > > > > > work, will you step in and pay me (and others who use the same > > > > > > modem) a > > > > > > new adsl modem that is supported by non-free software. > > > > > > > > > > How could the removal of non-free stop you from maintaining the > > > > > driver? > > > > > > > > No more BTS ? no more download area. > > > > > > Why shouldn't there be a bugs.nonfree.org? Cloning the Debian BTS > > > requires > > > work and copying the non-free bugs over as well, and you'd lose the > > > ability > > > to reassign bugs from and to free packages to and from non-free packages > > > but since the archives would be separated anyway, I don't consider this as > > > a big problem. > > > > And how do i reassign a bug to ppp for example then ? > > You close the bug in the nonfree.org BTS and open it again in the > debian.org BTS, copying as much information as are useful.
Or just close them and forget about them ? Or ask the user to fill it himself ? > It's not as nice as before, of course, but non-free won't use the > Debian infrastructure anymore as well. I believe that this is > an acceptable hassle. But it does mean more work for me. Anyway, let's see how the vote will turn out. > You can't move bugs between the Debian and the GNOME, KDE, Mozilla > etc. bug tracking systems either and this is acceptable already. I never interact with bugzilla based stuff anyway, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther
